Kind Words—Earth’s Good Angels

lyricist: Lucy Dougherty, 1871
Composer: Howard Teasdale

Kind words

kind words

O who can tell

The won­ders of your ma­gic spell;

Like lov­ing angels

pure and bright

Ye breathe a mes­sage of de­light.

Living

dy­ing

kind words be

Earth’s good an­gels

help­ing me.

Kind words

kind words

when hearts are light

We need you still to keep them bright;

Ye give to ev­ery joy a glow

Like sun­light spark­ling on the snow.

Kind words

kind words

in time of grief

Ye come with speed to our re­lief

And tho’ ye may not ban­ish care

Ye help the strick­en heart to bear.

Kind words

kind words

so sweet to hear

O bless the wide world

far and near;

In spok­en thought

or ho­ly song

Go and re­deem the world from wrong.

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